Danny Jones

It was this long process of shooting, editing, taking notes from production companies that, you know, you have to, you know how this works, but you have to like work with production companies who already have relationships with networks.

And they were like constantly giving us notes like, OK, change this for A&E, change this for Spike TV.

And we got to make sure it fits each network because we were pitching these networks.

They showed all these networks.

I was like, OK, great.

So it's just this roller coaster of emotions of like, oh, my God, we're going to get we're going to sell a TV show.

We're going to do a TV show.

And then finally, we got one of those shows to a green light meeting at Spike TV or A&E.

And like, I was like, this is it, we're gonna do it.

And the CEO of iCom killed it because it did not fit their roster of existing advertisers.

And I was just like so frustrated and fed up with it.

I was like, fuck this, I'm taking all this stuff that I've been working on and I'm gonna repackage them and put them on YouTube.

And I did.

And the first one that really took off got millions of views in like 2015 was called Deckhands.

And it was the story of these alcoholic dudes, these drunks that were hanging out in front of 7-Eleven in this little sleepy town called Madeira Beach where I'm from.

So me and my buddy Luke went up and we started –

filming these guys and asking them questions like yo what the fuck do you guys do here every day and they're like we're fucking fishermen bro come see how we live and one of these dudes took us back to his boat he lived on he had this broken down boat in this old uh dusty marina where it was the boat didn't work but he had he lived in this boat and it had amplifiers stacked to the ceiling

He had a stack of porno DVDs, like six feet tall, laser light machines, fog machines.

And he wore these fairy wings and like an armor helmet.

And he would jam out to like Rob Zombie on his guitar while playing the music videos on this big projection screen in his boat.